Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-16
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 FROM ALL QUARTERS. HOT WORDS IN COMMONS. Irish Members Give Saun-
 derson The Lie. THE HOUSE SUSPENDS HEALY. A Scene Of Uproar And
 Confusion. THE TRIAL OF JAKE SHARPE. A Cloud Bursts With Dis-
 astrous Results.
.sauNDERsON GIVEN THE LIE.


 HeaIy, Redmond and Sexton Tell the Orange Leader He is a Liar and a Coward-An UprOar in the House of Commons.
 LONDON, April 15.-Sir William Vernon Harcourt in the House of Commons this evening, resuming the debate on the coercion bill, scathingly denounced the attitude of Lord Randolph Churchill and MT. Chamber lain, which he considered especially ingenu- ous ia view of the we'll founded suspicion that they were men now seeking an alliance with Mr. Parnell for the promotion of their own personal ends. The conspiracy and White Boy clauses of the bill completely de- stroyed personal liberty in Ireland and placed an insuperable bar in the way of defensive business combinations. The appointment by the government of Colonel King Harmon as under secretary for Ireland was in itself sufficient evidence that the government was the partisan of the landlords. The bill would not suppress the National league as it aimed to do, but instead would increase the already too general detestation of the government. Regarding the taunts of the govern ment orators that American gold bred and fostered discomfort in Ireland,
 no one had less reason to complain
 of the effects of American gold than the
 landlords, since one got more of it than
 they did-through their rents. The propo-
 sal to make the bill permanent he regarded
 as most infamous, not to speak of it's being
 fragrant violation of the fundamental oondi
 tiens of the act of union.
 Major Saunderson said that the National
 league derived it's chief support from dyna-
 miters across the Atlantic. He did not
 mean to say the ieaguers themselves commit
 ted acts of bloodshed, but they were associ-
 ated with men whom they knew to be mur-
 derers. MT. Healy rose to call Major Saun-
 derson to- order. The Speaker said
 he admitted the gravity of Major
 Saunderson's charges, but as they could
 be met in debate he could not
 interfere. MT. Healy said that regardless
 of the consequences he would say that so far
 as the remarks referred to him Major Saun- person was liar. The speaker ordered MT. Healy to withdraw his words. MT. Healy
 refused to withdraw his language unless
 Major Saunderson was also ordered to with draw his and reiterated his assertion that Saunderson lied. John Redmond rose and said he too wished to go upon record as stigmatizing Major Saunderson as a liar. MT. w. H. Smith moved that Mir. Healy be sus pended A division was taken, resulting in it's adoption by vote of 11S against 52, and Mr. Healy walked out of the House amid 8 storm of cheers from the Parnellites | Major Saunderson essayed to resume his speech when MT. Thomas Sexton insisted upon his withdrawal of his offensive state ! ment. Saunderson replied, saying that Sher- idan was @ member of the league executive committee, of which MT. Sexton was also 8 member. Mir. Sexton asked if Saunderson | believed that he (Sexton) had any knowledge | that Sheridan a murderer. Major Saun- | derson answered that Sheridan, against whom 1 a true bill was found for complicity in the ! Phoenix Park murders, was member of the executive committee and the committee must have known his character.
 Mir. Sexten-You liar and a coward, 1 and if you were anywhere but on the floor of 1 the House I would administer to you the l thrashing you deserve"
 This was more than the House, which for some time had been intensely excited, could stand and MT. Sextons last word had scarce | ly left his mouth when a scene Of uproar and confusion seldom witnessed in & legislative | body took place. Everybody was on his feet shouting and gesticulating and the Speaker frantically appealed for order. The | disorder having no definite aim finally | subsided and the Speaker requested Messrs. Saunderson, Sexton and Redmond ! to retract their remarks, which request all 1 three complied with. A motion was made | to recall MT. Healy, but the Speaker would l not entertain it, saying that nothing could ! be done toward reinstating him until the next sitting of the House. MT. Saunderson | then resumed his speech. He said that MT. ! Sexton present at meeting at which Patrick Egan was made secretary of the l Clan-na- Gael, which was society of Irish
 murderers in America. The House then ad- ! iOQrn6d.